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Hello. This is six minute English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Phil and I'm Beth. A list is a collection of items with a single item written on each line.

And they're everywhere. Shopping lists, to do lists, even bucket lists, a list of all the things a person would like to do before they die.

In fact, there's an episode of Six Men, english all about them.

Imagine you're at the supermarket and find someone's shopping list.

This happens a lot to Joe Nolan, a linguistics researcher, whose new book explores our love of lists.

Here's Joe reading her shopping list on BBC radio for program Word of mouth only list the 1st four items.

But the list read known as II puke Shrimps.

None as II puke shrimps. Uh?

Can you work out what Joe was buying at the supermarket?

PHIL Okay, well, I'm gonna guess that bananas are bananas and shrimps, they've got to be mushrooms, right?

Okay, but what about II and puke?

What could they mean? Well, here's joe's explanation to Michael Rosen, presenter of BBC Radio force, word of Mouth.

And let's just come back to puke.

I mean, were you instructing yourself to be sick in the supermarket and just a bit lost there?

No, it's slightly great. Ask. My husband doesn't like cucumber, and the abbreviation for cucumber will be cuc so he has always referred to it as puke.

Aha. Cucumbers make joanna's husband puke, a slang word for vomits, and puke rhymes with kuke, so it's a way of reminding her to buy cucumbers.

Wow. Sometimes lists are like secret codes.

In this episode, will find out why people love lists, and learn some useful new words and phrases.

And remember, you'll find another list of all the vocabulary used on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

But 1st, a question for you, beth.

According to the list on the Internet movie database website, which movie has made the most money ever?

Is it a Titanic be Avengers end game, or See Avatar?

I think it might be Avatar, although that might have been the most expensive to make.

I'm not sure. Okay, well, we'll find out at the end of the program.

Popular songs are full of lists, and one of the most famous is My favorite things, sung by Julie Andrews in the film, the Sound of Music.

The song lists all her favourite things, from raindrops on roses to whiskers on kittens.

Here Jo Nolan and Michael Rose and discussed the song on BBC radio for program Word of Mouth.

I feel like you get a lot, you get a big bang for your buck in that song.

Maybe it's the positivity, it's a bit sacker, and maybe that's also part of the issue.

The list encourages you to think really efficiently and and economically, so I think you don't waste a lot of time and effort making a nice sentence or using long words.

You just get to the nub of things quite quickly.

The songs list of favorite things is long.

And Joe says, you get a big bang for your book, an idiom, meaning that you gain a lot in return for the money or effort you spend on something.

But not everyone likes the song.

Some call it sackerine, an adjective, meaning excessively sweet, sentimental or insincere.

Lists often abbreviate the items they contain, so you get to the nub of things quickly.

The nub of something means the most important or essential point about it.

Lists can be useful as well.

Here's Joan Olan giving an example of a useful list to BBC radiofores.

Word of mouth. A friend of mine who makes pros and cons lists, finds that it really helps her resolve a situation.

Halves her page Prose cons, and she said, by the end of it, she knows what she's doing.

Lists help us make decisions by writing down all the prose and cons of a situation.

The pros and cons is another way of saying the advantages and disadvantages of something, especially when you're trying to choose between them.

The more you think about it, the more you see lists everywhere in menus and bank statements.

E.G. and therapists even recommend listing all the good things in your life to feel happier, not bad, for a few words on a scrap of paper.

Okay, it's time to reveal the answer to my question.

Beth, I asked you which movie had made the most

money ever, and you said Avatar.

And now, according to the Internet movie database, that's exactly right.

OK let's recap the vocabulary we've learned, starting with bucket list all the things you would like to do before you die.

Puke is slang for vomit or sick.

If something gives bang for your buck, you gain a lot of extra value in return for the money or effort you put into it.

If you call something sackerine, you criticize it for being too sweet or sentimental.

The nub of a problem or situation is the most important or essential thing about it.

And finally, somethings prose and cons are its advantages and disadvantages.

Once again, our 6 min are up, but remember, you'll find a quiz and worksheet for this episode over on our website, BBC Learning english com.

Goodbye for now. Bye dot com.

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